How do I change the background color of the column with the expanders in Eclipse?

Question

Recently after scorching my retinas from the garish white background in Eclipse, I found some of the excellent posts about how to change the colors so it uses sane (i.e. dark background) colors in the editor. However, one problem present in all solutions is that background of the column with the expanders for code folding is always white. Is there a way to change the background of that column? Here's a screenshot of the problem:

I'm not the only person that has this problem, as shown in the screenshots for the following questions:

• Dark Color Scheme for Eclipse
• Color Themes for Eclipse (application of color schemes results in this issue on a Mac, no idea about PC)

I know that the problem is not language specific as it happens in Java, Python, HTML, and everything else. Any hints on where in the pages of preferences this setting is?

Answer 1

This is related to Eclipse Bug 62712 which is fixed in build 20090329-2000 almost a year ago. In my Galileo of build 20090920-1017 it just works when I change the background color through General > Editors > Text Editors. Here's a screen (don't pay attention to the ugly color combo, my bg defaults to white and I just picked random yellow to demonstrate that the ruler background get changed as well):

In other words, just upgrade your Eclipse to include this bugfix. Did you check Help > Check for Updates?